Talk:Unterseeboot 869

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The German U-boat 869 was supposly sunk off the coast of Africa. It was latter found by some deep sea divers off the coast of New Jersey. It was at a depth of 230 ft, 100 ft. below the safe diving depth. The crew of divers that found it lost three memebers while trying to identfy it. It took them the better part of seven years to even find a clue as to which boat it was. The first clue was a knife that had a name of one of the crew memebers' name on it. Two divers traveled to Germany to the U-boat Archive to find out which boat that crew memeber had been on when it whent down. They discovered that he had been on U 869. The boat that had been sunk off the coast of Rabat. They continued their search and finally gaind access to the eletric engine room that contained boxes of spare parts that had the U-boats's number on it. The entrance to the room was blocked by an oil drum that had fallen off the celing and there wasn't enough room for a diver and his tanks to fit. One of the divers went down with only one tank and pushed it in front of him while he squeezed through the opening between the top of the oil drum and the top of the room. The box of parts that he recovered identified the boat as U 869. The most likely explanation is that the boat never recived a change in orders telling it to head to Africa. It was sunk by a torpedo. It is believed that it was hit by one of it's own torpedoes. There are no real clear explantions as to how, the accepted one is that it was a torpedo circle, a malfunction of the gyro that steered the torpedo.

• writers comment: I belive that the torpedo struck an abject that was extremly close to the U-boat and exploded takeing the sub with it.

The divers' discovery and research might make an interesting separate article -- let's put details about the boat itself here and start a new article at, maybe, Discovery of U-869 for descriptions of the dives and so on. --the Epopt 16:28 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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